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All the ideas for 'The Case for Closure', 'Presentism and Properties' and 'Is Mathematics purely Linguistic?'

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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 7. Formalism

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Numbers are just verbal conveniences, which can be analysed away [Russell]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 2. Common Sense Certainty

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Commitment to 'I have a hand' only makes sense in a context where it has been doubted [Hawthorne]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / c. Knowledge closure

19551

How can we know the heavyweight implications of normal knowledge? Must we distort 'knowledge'? [Hawthorne]

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We wouldn't know the logical implications of our knowledge if small risks added up to big risks [Hawthorne]

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Denying closure is denying we know P when we know P and Q, which is absurd in simple cases [Hawthorne]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism

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I am a presentist, and all language and common sense supports my view [Bigelow]